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100 years of statehood, 12,000 years of human history. Experience the events that have shaped Arizona and relive battles, feuds, and discoveries of minerals and metals with slideshows, interactive exhibits, timelines, and maps.

President Taft signs Arizona into statehood.On February 14, 1912, the man who would become Arizona’s first Governor, George P. Hunt, walked from his hotel in Washington D.C. to the Capitol building to watch President Taft sign Arizona into statehood.

In 1896, construction of the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff brought astronomy to the Southwest, sparking a science and a passion that still blazes in Arizona. For over 100 years its research has sharpened our understanding of the universe.